A few days ago we were alloohing and awing over a Samsung Galaxy Note 5that was modded with a decipherable back panel revealing some of the components inside . But it ca n’t liken to the nerd lustfulness some of your are probably feeling over thisincredibly rare Apple Newton .
A Newton MessagePad 110 , to be accurate , just popped up on eBay . And while they ’re not impossibly hard to come by these days , this one is unique because it ’s really a pre - production model , have a totally vindicated credit card lodging revealing all of the ancient electronics in spite of appearance .
The mortal who brand this eBay auction received the MessagePad as an Apple developer during the 1994 MacWorld convention . And after using it for an entire week , they locked it by inside a safe for 21 years . Which means that not only is it in mint condition , it ’s still fully operational and total with original accoutrement including a charging dock , an external keyboard , and a rarified PCMCIA wireless messaging batting order that let the Newton do naive text messaging .
There do n’t seem to be any bids on the rare Newton just yet , so you have about six days leave to snatch it up . The start bid has been set at $ 850 , which is probably why no one has made a move yet . Because working or not , it ’s still 20 - year - old PDA that did n’t exactly revolutionize the world when it was first acquaint .
[ eBayviaBoing Boing ]
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